Avete sicuramente partecipato a un milione di videochat, e visto gente in tutte le parti della casa. In Portogallo vanno molto le librerie. Vanno talmente tanto che sono diventate oggetto di una vera e propria competizione

Money quote: "“We saw a paradigm shift taking place before our eyes,” the satirist says. (He asked not to be named because he fears retaliation for his political work.) As Portuguese analysts and media personalities put social distancing into practice and began sifting through the day’s events from the comfort of their home offices, “the previously sophisticated sets, where interviewers and interviewees competed for the audience’s attention with catchy chyrons and elaborated graphics, were replaced with the erudite backdrop of plain old bookshelves.” The evening news had joined the work-from-home movement, and just like that, the home offices of famous people went temporarily on public view."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/national-bookshelf-competition-portugal/

Big tech unite contro gli hacker: nasce la “Soc Alliance” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/big-tech-unite-contro-gli-hacker-nasce-la-soc-alliance/

Cybersecurity, guerra di spie Usa-Cina sulla ricerca anti Covid-19 - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/cybersecurity-guerra-di-spie-usa-cina-sulla-ricerca-anti-covid-19/

C’è il Salone di Torino. #SALTOEXTRA. Su Anobii è stata fatta la collezione dei libri di cui si parla quest’anno per la prima volta da remoto

https://www.anobii.com/collections/5096979

Per chi vuole saperne di più, sul blog di Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/05/13/un-salto-virtuale-al-salone-del-libro-di-torino/

Cosa succederà quando arriveranno i segnali radio degli alieni? Perché potrebbero arrivare (anche se non è statisticamente sicuro che possa succedere). Comunque, i piani ci sono

Money quote: "Planets aren’t rare. Life is surprisingly durable. The more we’ve learned about the Universe, the more the search for extraterrestrial life has shifted from science fiction to serious scientific undertaking. So it’s worth considering how humanity would react if we learned, through some distant but unmistakable signal, that lifeforms elsewhere in the Universe were communicating with us. In this interview, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Center for SETI Research in California, discusses how first contact is more likely to be perspective-shifting than Earth-shattering."

https://aeon.co/videos/imagine-alien-signals-are-detected-here-s-what-happens-next

Zoom apre due nuovi centri di R&S: in cantiere 500 assunzioni - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/zoom-apre-due-nuovi-centri-di-rs-in-cantiere-500-assunzioni/

Se volete fare un viaggio a cavallo tra gli anni Ottanta e l'asilo, ecco a voi SmileBasic 4 per Nintendo Switch

Money quote: "This is the programming software, "SmileBASIC 4", that allows you to create and play games with Nintendo Switch™! The programming language is "SmileBASIC" which is the most suitable language for creating games. Because it is based on the language "BASIC" that is easy to understand even for beginners and it has been developed for program learning. So, even those who have never experienced programming can work on their projects. Moreover, there are many materials and various tools to support your work development."

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/smilebasic-4-switch

Il senso di vuoto, di fine della festa che solo dei set deserti sanno dare. Perché non trasformarli negli sfondi per le vostre chiamate su Zoom?

Money quote: "Click on an image to bring up a full quality downloadable version, right click and select "Save image as...", then set it as your background image in your video conferencing application."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/empty_sets_collection/zfvy382

Assicurazioni nel guado, le big tech conquistano sempre più clienti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/assicurazioni-nel-guado-le-big-tech-conquistano-sempre-piu-clienti/

Un libro tutto da leggere. A sapere quale comprate. L'idea di fare edizioni diverse dello stesso libro non è nuova: ricordo che anni fa ce n'era uno sull'iPod di Steven Levy, "The Perfect Thing", in cui i capitoli erano messi in ordine diverso in modo casuale, quasi una specie di gioco dell'Oulipo. Questo però è diverso. Questo è bastardo.

Money quote: "Percival Everett has always been a rule-breaking author, but his new novel, “Telephone,” takes it to a new level. “There are three different versions of this novel, they’re all published identically, and you can’t know which one you’re getting,” he said. “It’s going to piss a lot of people off, I’m afraid.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/books/percival-everett-telephone.html

La potenza del reverse engineering

Money quote: "Picroma Plasma is a vector image editor written by Wolfram von Funck under the company Picroma. Some videos of its usage are available on Picroma's YouTube channel.

Picroma/Wollay is also the author the game Cube World, and as a result, the game's GUI is constructed using Plasma graphics. I became interested in these Plasma graphics files in 2016, as I was beginning to get into reverse engineering and programming, and I had just finished building a converter for another, much simpler, undocumented image file format. Until this point, no one else had managed to make any useful modifications to Cube World's image files."

https://github.com/ChrisMiuchiz/Plasma-Writeup

Jack Ma come Bill Gates, addio al business in nome della filantropia - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/jack-ma-come-bill-gates-addio-al-business-in-nome-della-filantropia/

Uber in crisi, via a maxi-piano di taglio costi: 6.700 licenziamenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/uber-in-crisi-via-a-maxi-piano-di-taglio-costi-6-700-licenziamenti/

Se state pensando di leggere qualcosa, oggi, fate che sia questo

Money quote: “An administration official says advising Trump is like “bringing fruits to the volcano” – Trump being the lava source.”

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

Quarantena e diritto di copia: cos'è cambiato? - il mio post per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/05/19/quarantena-e-diritto-di-copia-cose-cambiato/

Il problema è che spesso giudichiamo i libri dalla copertina. Anche quando non dovremmo

Money quote: "In 1988, the children’s novelist and Russia expert James Riordan translated several of these for a collection called The Lion and the Puppy: And Other Stories for Children, published first by Henry Holt and Company. The cover has a nice picture of a lion and a puppy; the illustrations by Claus Sievert are lovely throughout. My children fell in love with that picture, and they wanted me to read them the book. My first thought was: Children’s stories by the author of the inspirational The Death of Ivan Ilyich? But pestilence has closed the schools and home reading was important. Tolstoy wrote them; they couldn’t be that bad. Now I sincerely wish I had never touched them."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/leo-tolstoys-childrens-stories-will-devastate-your-children-and-make-you-want-to-die

Svolta YouTube, si apre la caccia all'adv televisvo - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/svolta-youtube-si-apre-la-caccia-alladv-televisvo/

Zoom, in Cina stop agli account gratuiti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/zoom-in-cina-stop-agli-account-gratuiti/

FaceTime, l'opportunità perduta di Apple - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/05/19/news/facetime-l-opportunita-perduta-di-apple-1.38864427?refresh_ce